I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".

The legacy left by man shall be barren earth

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

I am not alone even in solitude.

The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!

Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.

There's no scenario in which I wouldn't want my entire family at a wedding.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.